PMK seeks Centre's intervention in Pondy

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, DEC. 12. Mr. P. Sankaran, vice-president of the PMK's Tamil Nadu unit, has called upon the Centre to intervene immediately and dismiss the Pondicherry Ministry headed by Mr. P. Shanmugham and notify elections to the Territorial Assembly.

In a statement here today, Mr. Sankaran said the government had no legal or moral right to govern as all democratic norms had been trampled upon.

He said that right from day one when the present Ministry came into existence, there had been several discrepancies and Mr. Shanmugham himself assumed office first without being a member of the Assembly.

Mr. Sankaran said that when Mr. Kannan had come out with grave allegations against the Cooperation Minister, Mr. Jayakumar, the Chief Minister had not bestired himself to take any action against the latter.The silence was continued by Mr. Shanmugham even when Mr. Kannan presented evidence on the floor of the House recently in respect of certain allegations.

Instead of taking action on the written memorandum Mr. Kannan presented on Sunday last to the Chief Minister, a dramatic decision was taken to sack Mr. Kannan. He said one was left suspecting that there had been political motives on the part of the present rulers in handling very serious situations. Hence both on legal or on moral grounds the present Ministry had no right to remain in office.The Centre should intervene and dismiss the government, Mr. Sankaran said.

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